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to any hungry prowlers that might follow 

 his trail to share the feast. 



Once since then a guide told me of follow- 



C unnwg One ing a black cat . s trailj and finding where he 



crept up on a porcupine and tunneled under 

 him and gripped the throat, while his own 

 body was safe from attack under the snow. 

 And I have no doubt the habit is a more or 

 less common one, and may be witnessed 

 again if one will but follow patiently Pe- 

 quam's cunning trail. Where fishers increase 

 deer grow scarce, for Pequam kills them 

 easily on the crust ; and these two facts — the 

 crusted deer and the outwitted porcupine — 

 undoubtedly explain why Pequam is often 

 fat even in the gaunt month of March, and 

 why he sleeps well-fed and warm for days at 

 a time while larger or faster animals must 

 wander all night long through the hungry 

 woods. 



Many other things were seen or read on 

 the trail of the Cunning One, while Newell 

 followed his lonely saple line, and the little 

 hunting camp on the Dungarvon waited 

 with its warm welcome to tired hunters in 



